The 45 Grossest Things in San Francisco

It's a known fact that San Francisco is the most beautiful city in the US, but it's not without its warts. We're talking really, really gross things (even grosser than actual warts). Ordinarily we try to suck it up and pretend like they don't exist -- because how else can we justify paying eight million dollars a month on rent? -- but not today. Today we're acknowledging that, yeah, as great as this city is, sometimes it's seriously nasty. Take these 45 things, for instance:

1. Human poop in the park

And the fact that your dog just stepped in it. "Dog steps in man's poop" is the new "man bites dog."

2. Human poop that's smeared across the sidewalk

Also, the bottom of the shoe responsible for the smearing.

3. The guy who just pooped in public...

And then wiped with his hand. (We wish this was the last feces-related one.)

4. Compost

Sure, it’s good for the environment, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that container of rotting food in your kitchen is not disgusting.

5. Public spitting

There's nothing quite like slipping in a loogie as you run to try to catch the bus.

6. Dive bar bathrooms

Looking at you, Delirium.

7. The seagulls at AT&T Park

It’s all fun and baseball games until a seagull takes a dump on your head.

8. The stench of urine in every alleyway

As if alleyways weren't already inviting enough.

9. 2am piles of burrito vomit on Mission St

Yummmmmmy.

10. 2pm piles of burrito vomit on Mission St

Yes, they’re gross at 2am when they’re fresh out of the tummy, but they’re so much grosser when they’ve been left baking in the hot sun all day.

42. The fact that people happily pay four dollars for toast

43. Anyone wearing a Seahawks jersey

44. Most startup offices

Yummmmmmm... guys walking around in smelly socks and T-shirts that haven’t been washed in weeks.

45. 16th and Mission

No explanation needed.

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Daisy Barringer is Thrillist's SF Editor and she has a very real phobia of pigeons, especially the ones that stalk her on the N Judah. She wanted to work on this in therapy, but her therapist said she had bigger issues to tackle first. That was four years ago. They still haven't tackled the pigeon phobia. Follow her on Twitter @daisy.